react-oauth2-code-pkce

react-oauth2-code-pkce ·

React package for OAuth2 Authorization Code flow with PKCE

Adhering to the RFCs recommendations, cryptographically sound, and with zero dependencies!

What is OAuth2 Authorization Code Flow with Proof Key for Code Exchange?

Short version;
The modern and secure way to do authentication for mobile and web applications!

Long version;
https://oauth.net/2/pkce/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7636

Features

• Authorization provider-agnostic. Works equally well with all OAuth2 authentication servers following the OAuth2 spec
• Supports OpenID Connect (idTokens)
• Pre- and Post-login callbacks
• Session expired callback
• Silently refreshes short-lived access tokens in the background
• Decodes JWT's
• A total of ~440 lines of code, easy for anyone to audit and understand

Example

import { AuthContext, AuthProvider, TAuthConfig, TRefreshTokenExpiredEvent } from "react-oauth2-code-pkce"

const authConfig: TAuthConfig = {
  clientId: 'myClientID',
  authorizationEndpoint: 'https://myAuthProvider.com/auth',
  tokenEndpoint: 'https://myAuthProvider.com/token',
  redirectUri: 'http://localhost:3000/',
  scope: 'someScope openid',
  onRefreshTokenExpire: (event: TRefreshTokenExpiredEvent) => window.confirm('Session expired. Refresh page to continue using the site?') && event.login(),
}

const UserInfo = (): JSX.Element => {
    const {token, tokenData} = useContext<IAuthContext>(AuthContext)

    return <>
        <h4>Access Token</h4>
        <pre>{token}</pre>
        <h4>User Information from JWT</h4>
        <pre>{JSON.stringify(tokenData, null, 2)}</pre>
    </>
}

ReactDOM.render(<AuthProvider authConfig={authConfig}>
        <UserInfo/>
    </AuthProvider>
    , document.getElementById('root'),
)

For more advanced examples, see ./examples/.

Install

The package is available on npmjs.com here; https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-oauth2-code-pkce

npm install react-oauth2-code-pkce

API

IAuthContext values

The object that's returned by useContext(AuthContext) provides these values;

interface IAuthContext {
  // The access token. This is what you will use for authentication against protected Web API's
  token: string
  // An object with all the properties encoded in the token (username, email, etc.), if the token is a JWT 
  tokenData?: TTokenData
  // Function to trigger login.
  login: () => void  
  // Function to trigger logout from authentication provider. You may provide optional 'state', and 'logout_hint' values.
  // See https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-rpinitiated-1_0.html#RPLogout for details.
  logOut: (state?: string, logoutHint?: string) => void
  // Keeps any errors that occured during login, token fetching/refreshing, decoding, etc.. 
  error: string | null
  // The idToken, if it was returned along with the access token
  idToken?: string
  // An object with all the properties encoded in the ID-token (username, groups, etc.)
  idTokenData?: TTokenData
  // If the <AuthProvider> is done fetching tokens or not. Usefull for controlling page rendering
  loginInProgress: boolean
}

Configuration parameters

react-oauth2-code-pkce's goal is to "just work" with any authentication provider that either supports the OAuth2 or OpenID Connect (OIDC) standards.
However, many authentication providers are not following these standards, or have extended them. With this in mind, if you are experiencing any problems, a good place to start is to see if the provider expects some custom parameters. If they do, these can be injected into the different calls with these configuration options;

• extraAuthParameters
• extraTokenParameters
• extraLogoutParameters

The <AuthProvider> takes a config object that supports these parameters;

type TAuthConfig = {
  // Id of your app at the authentication provider
  clientId: string  // Required
  // URL for the authentication endpoint at the authentication provider
  authorizationEndpoint: string  // Required
  // URL for the token endpoint at the authentication provider
  tokenEndpoint: string  // Required
  // Which URL the auth provider should redirect the user after successfull authentication/login
  redirectUri: string  // Required
  // Which scopes to request for the auth token
  scope?: string  // default: ''
  // Which URL to call for logging out of the auth provider
  logoutEndpoint?: string  // default: null
  // Which URL the auth provider should redirect the user to after logout
  logoutRedirect?: string  // default: null
  // Optionally provide a callback function to run _before_ the
  // user is redirected to the auth server for login
  preLogin?: () => void  // default: () => null
  // Optionally provide a callback function to run _after_ the
  // user has been redirected back from the auth server
  postLogin?: () => void  // default: () => null
  // Optional callback function for the 'refreshTokenExpired' event.
  // You likely want to display a message saying the user need to login again. A page refresh is enough.
  onRefreshTokenExpire?: (event: TRefreshTokenExpiredEvent) => void  // default: undefined
  // Whether or not to decode the access token (should be set to 'false' if the access token is not a JWT (e.g. from Github))
  // If `false`, 'tokenData' will be 'undefined' from the <AuthContext>
  decodeToken?: boolean  // default: true
  // By default, the package will automatically redirect the user to the login server if not already logged in.
  // If set to false, you need to call the "login()" function to login (e.g. with a "Login" button)
  autoLogin?: boolean  // default: true
  // Can be used to provide any non-standard parameters to the authentication request
  extraAuthParameters?: { [key: string]: string | boolean | number }  // default: null
  // Can be used to provide any non-standard parameters to the token request
  extraTokenParameters?: { [key: string]: string | boolean | number } // default: null
  // Can be used to provide any non-standard parameters to the logout request
  extraLogoutParameters?: { [key: string]: string | boolean | number } // default: null
  // Superseded by 'extraTokenParameters' options. Will be deprecated in 2.0
  extraAuthParams?: { [key: string]: string | boolean | number }  // default: null
}

Common issues

After redirect back from auth provider with ?code, no token request is made

If you are using libraries that intercept any fetch()-requests made. For example @tanstack/react-query. That can cause issues for the AuthProviders token fetching. This can be solved by not wrapping the <AuthProvider> in any such library.

This could also happend if some routes in your app are not wrapped by the <AuthProvider>.

The page randomly refreshes in the middle of a session

This will happen if you haven't provided a callback-function for the onRefreshTokenExpire config parameter, and the refresh token expires. You probably want to implement some kind of "alert/message/banner", saying that the session has expired and that the user needs to login again. Either by refreshing the page, or clicking a "Login-button".

Develop

1. Update the 'authConfig' object in src/index.js with config from your authorization server and application
2. Install node_modules -> $ yarn install
3. Run -> $ yarn start

Contribute

You are most welcome to create issues and pull requests :)